I’m sure that was the original idea before the series started to focus on the card game, but after the Konami Card game came out, it seemed to change from “This Kid, Yugi, is the King of Games,” to “This game, Yu-Gi-Oh, is king and all other games are lesser to it.” I’m sure Konami marketing had a blast with that.
Come to think of it, Yugioh was a visionary. In recent years, there has been a surge of board games that are comparable to Capsule Monster. Yugioh was just ahead of its time.
Hot take: There needs to be a Yugioh spinoff series where Atem lives up to his title as "King of Games", and what better way than to start a career in streaming, getting into esports, and punish his rival by having them swatted?
1:10- Pharaoh: I swear this bizarre land situation plays almost like that time I faced Mokuba.....who was oddly more like Weevil....except cute and cuddly. Joey/Jounouchi: Silly Yuge! Season Zero doesn’t count.
You have to wonder why Gashopan never became a thing in the US, I mean we have claw machines here & candy dispenser machines. I feel like I've actually encountered a toy capsule machine a couple of times as a child though. 2-3 inch Capsule figures for DC, Marvel, Pokemon, etc. would probably be really popular as an alternative to claw machines here if given a chance. Also how much do Gashopan cost anyway? If they are everywhere in Japan, why couldn't they be used in places that have Claw Machines here? If I had the option of paying $1 for a capsule with toys from a series I enjoy & 1/4th of that for a claw machine, I would choose the capsule easily.
@@WaterKirby1994 Well there is the costs for licensing the toys, making the toys, making the capsules for the toys, printing the little paper showing the rest of that toy's series "YOU NEED TO GET ALSO". And then there's the costs of manufacturing (and probably importing) the machines themselves, printing the flashy posters or advertising on the machines. And most companies in the U.S. that has those machines rent them.
@@26th_Primarch That's funny. I live in a small town (around 10 000 citizens) in Czech Republic in Central Europe and every drugstore has the gashapon machines, so I don't really get that whole "it's too expensive" thing.
@@kompuglobalhypermega The machines aren't necessarily expensive but to keep the licensing on the trademarked and copyrighted materials is and most store chains in America don't want to spend that kind of extra money.
Right. As this guy said the original concept of Yu-Gi-Oh was about a supernatural serial killer with a gaming fetish who possessed 15 year old boy. And it was indeed metal!
That’s what I liked about YGO, pre-card game craze. I wish they kept on with that spirit in some form or another. The show translates to King of Games, not Card Game King. It’s a little sad that a majority of the fanbase is relatively close-minded to other iterations using YGO.
@@holyordersol2668 They did for awhile. I really loved the original manga. My favorite game parody is where they parodied the Digimon Digivices and Yugi's little keychain "Digimon" looked like him. And Anzo's/Tea's looked like a peach.
@@princesspikachu3915 That was one of weirdest, though I do like the bitter-sweet ending... I almost cried. As for me I just like when Yami kills or injures someone while laughing.
@@Buddergolem2525 onebadterran and Underlordtico are my favorites. I have watched their playthroughs a few times each. onebadterran is my personal favorite though as he showcases fusions and evolutions in his playthrough. It got me to buy a new Ps2 and redo the game myself
When I was watching Yu-Gi-Oh! last year in japanese, I was so confused why I couldn't find Capsule Monsters in japanese dub lol But when I watched it, I must say it is indeed boring and passable. But the concept is so freaking cool! I really love the dumb armors and arm launcher of bullets that spawn yugioh monsters.
it's not actually anime, it's entirely western but I love the concept of the monsters being real even if its been done before by pokemon digimon etc it's a fun idea I'm surprised they didn't push it further than this
It didn't really fail though. Konami and the series both tried something new. It worked better as a video game and part of the series than it did the actual game.
I liked the show's concept of players being connected to their monsters meta-physically and through fusion. It was executed OK, the rest was confusing and not Yu-Gi-Oh.
V-Tamer was amazing. I totally had a crush on Neo Saiba. Unfortunately my library only had the first two volumes, I should totally try and find the rest of it.
Only cool part of the Capsule monsters part of the anime was the armoured forms Yugi took when fusing with a monster. But looking back on it Joey and Yugi managed to find capsules that contained monsters from their respective Decks.
@@Mailed-Knight Yeah, but after Duelist Kingdom they're just kind of "there". The only time either of them did anything of relevance after Tristan's suit of armor thing was Tristan finding Joey once and both of them getting possessed in different arcs by said arcs' big bads. They went from characters that *sometimes* did something to possession fodder halfway through the manga (and the anime, of course, skips the first quarter). I suppose that's why Capsule Monsters and the Virtual World Round 2 fillers tried to give them more to do - because otherwise they'd be useless most of the time, instead of half of the time.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters Collesium was actually pretty fun, assuming you turned off battle animations. I primarily used an army of Skelengel due to their unique attack pattern and a Blue Eyes Ultimate just to obliterate everything else. It was actually kind of like playing Fire Emblem with Yu-gi-oh monsters. Aside from the card game eclipsing the other two games. Dungeon Dice Monsters and Capsule Monsters also never had a chance to take off because making plastic figures is much more expensive than printing paper cards.
The PS2 game was pretty nice. Good gameplay and wonderful graphics/level design. At the same time, there's no denying that the story is nonexistent, and the collections both require about 5+ playthroughs (which can grow dull without serious breaks) and end up feeling a bit empty compared to the already 1000+ strong selection of monsters to choose from in the card game at the time.
@@MrRoanRocks same here, started playing it again for the first time in years and it's really delightful although a bit too short. It's miles better than that lame spin-off anime.
I would love if you checked out Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (aka the motorcycle one). It doesn't get nearly enough attention because the premise is so out there, but it's amazing because of it.
It got cut short an entire season here in the states too which made it feel nonsensical and anticlimactic BUT if you catch the last season subbed it's arguably one of the best seasons!
Sad how the only Yugioh Anime to be shown fully (other than the Original if you don't count Season 0) in the States is the worst Yugioh series Zexal. GX Season 4 never aired, 5Ds had tons of episodes missing from WRGP Saga & Ark Cradle Saga shared the same fate as GX's final season to be skipped entirely in favor of a newer series. Arc V Season 2 never aired for unknown reasons, & I don't think VRains will ever air seeing as Nicktoons has completely stopped showing Yugioh Animes. Curse the United States & it's extremely poor treatment of anime series aimed at kids that aren't Pokemon. Your FCC & Channels that don't like Japanese series getting dubbed. That can't stand Japanese intro & end themes. Actually the Channel thing is probably more "I want 7 full minutes of commercials at least!" which is why they would rather not show Japanese series.
I disagree, speed duels are fun to play when you're drunk with friends. Since my friends and I don't go to locals and have very little exp haha. Meta gameplay would turn us off with every monster being an effect monster.
"Capsule Monsters" was pretty weird, I'll give you that. The only positive things I can say about it is that A) Yugi's grandfather actually got to be part of an adventure this time around and B) the monster armor looked pretty cool. Otherwise, I'm sticking with the Abridged version of this arc.
The PS2 one was actually one of my favorite childhood games! I finished the game years ago and I have to say it was pretty hard to finish. Especially getting all pieces of Exodia, but overall the game was alot of fun just like Duelist of the Roses.
Yugi with Wings looks amazing though. I'd love to just watch him fly around. And he/the wings fold up afterwards so they're not sticking out like most other winged characters seem to do.
It is, Capsule Monster Coliseum plays in an extremely similar fashion the main differences are that there are no spells/traps, no leaders, and the amount of monsters allowed. In CMC you can have 2 massive monsters or an army of small monsters. You would definitely enjoy it 😄
Great content as always! Any chance you’ll cover non-cartoon/anime topics like maybe the AWFUL USA Kamen Rider Dragon Knight series? That terrible show would make for an not-terrible video ;)
It's really not awful. As a fan of the mainline series of Kamen Rider, I can appreciate it for what it is. Sure, it's not faithful to the original source material, but it was a damn good show!
A lot of people actually prefer Dragon Knight to Ryuuki. In Japan, it even got an official novelized sequel. It's just that the show didn't do too well here in America due to a variety of factors (poor marketing, bad time slot, being compared to Power Rangers, Bandai America making godawful merchandise that was somehow worse than what was available 7 years prior, the show being highly serialized resulting in people jumping in partway through being completely lost, 4Kids' arbitrary rules about shows ending in December preventing the final two episodes from being shown, etc.)
"Wouldn't it be cool if we all had cosplay- I mean battle suits like you Yugi?" "No, i'm the main protagonist, therefore only I can have the cool gimmics"
"I can't wait for the sequel when the gang faces off against Attila the Hun." Ahahaha...hahahaha...f-funny idea, right? Yeah. That's so ridiculous. I mean, fighting a random historical figure like that. Yeah. Fighting Attila the Hun like that. My Switch: Fate/Extella Link has finished pre-installing.
Personally, I liked the Capsule Monsters arc. (Mind you I watched it not knowing where in the show it happened, just watching the episodes themselves) I especially liked the concept of the Dual Armor. Something about combining your strength with that of your monster just intrigued me.
@@tuyet2bdead193 yay SD gundam was made for kids to get them into gundam. But they did a better job with build fighters. Alot of anime will have bad numbers & still have fans & get cult status. But that won't happen to SD gundam. It has happened for shows like Big O, FLCL, Deadman wonderland & many more. Were they do better here then in japan. Toonami first aired SD gundam during a time slot when alot of kids weren't watching it. Some people haven't watched it ether & say it's the worst just by its looks. I'm not saying it's good just weird & could be a nice comfert anime when you just want back round noise.
I'll admit I actually liked the capsule monster episode and dungeon dice monsters. They were unique and not all about the card game. I thought the armored forms were cool. I may be in the minority but still. I think just thinking of the entire series as just the card game is why most people seemed to hate it when they deviated from the card game.
Your Yu-Gi-Oh videos are why I subbed and I'd love more from you I now have watched all your videos and I love your humor and editing style is wonderful!
billiam u literally went to where they make bakugan and neither you or the yugitubers said anything about them combining bakugan tech with dungeon dice monsters
I can tell you right now that Capsule Monsters PS2 is THE BOMB. I played it all the time as a kid and recently revived the game to jam out with my flatmates. I recognized the map from the physical game as one of the many maps from the PS2 game too. It’s surprisingly deep, with each monster having different move & attack ranges, and specials they can earn as they level up. Unfortunately there’s no hard mode, the game just has you replay the story when you finish it. So once you have a sufficiently powerful deck, the only way you’re going to have any challenge at all is if you play against another player. On a PS2 game. That never had any online functionality. That depends on collecting and leveling a bunch of monsters. Needless to say; that’s probably a reason the game died.
Capsule Monsters wasn't a spin off. if anything the card game is the spin off. it was just the more successful of the two, and due to popular demand thats the game the series followed after season 0.
To Me the video games weren't a failed spin off. In fact I want sooo much more of it! Me and my brother couldn't get enough of it. Especially capsule monster coliseum. I wish they would have gone further. I think they didn't take enough opportunity to advertise it better. Pokemon xd gale of darkness is the same to me. Such an amazing concept and game but never fully used to its full potential. Instead it's just left alone to slowly be forgotten. Yes I also know he's mainly talking about the anime, but it includes the games as well.
4Kids was definitely hoping the Capsule Monsters anime would work as an ad for the physical game. After all, they went as far as to produce that 12-episode mini-series. It was an oddly, mostly American, Yu-Gi-Oh production.
I remember reading the manga once and yugi wasn’t playing duel monsters he would just play some random game with his opponents and it confused tf outta me
I heard that rumor during pre capsule monster thing was exactly hard to game freak or konami made exactly same name so in order to avoid it the gave konami that idea so yeah.
"dungeon dice monsters, the failed spin off that took Yu-Gi-Oh and gave it dice." I'm getting flashbacks to ygotas lol. Oh, I see that you are a man of culture and watched that too. That's how I discovered capsule monsters too.
I would LOVE for you to look at Duelists of the roses. It might be closer to normal yugioh than caosule monsters and not have an anime to go with it but its still so wierd
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster on the video game on ps2 was super fun! And I like the tv show, it was my guilty pleasure. I still go back and watch that season. But the manga and game did it justice.
I actually have a pretty big soft spot for Capsule Monsters! Obviously it's completely non-canon and 4Kids is garbage, but it had some legitimately interesting ideas. It fleshed out personalities and lore of some of the monsters in a way stop the show by its nature as a card game with card spirits that weren't constant companions couldn't, and the whole thing with some characters being able to fuse with monsters is SO cool - the Dark Magician family of monsters has always been my favorite, so watching Atem fuse with Dark Magician and Magician of Black Chaos were crowning moments of awesome. They still got me super hyped on rewatch a couple years ago. I actually just cleaned out some of my screenshots folder a month ago and found the whole sequence of Tristan with the melon painstakingly capped!! The fact that was so out of the blue made that moment even funnier!
I got interested in this and managed to snag an unopened copy of the starter set from eBay after looking for months years ago, if I knew you were doing this I would have sent it to you 😭. Thanks for still doing your research on the topic, love the video as always.
From what I recall even as a kid I felt this evil guy's plot and reason for being evil was stupid. I remember he had to get pieces of some key to open a door, but when they assemble all the pieces and the door doesn't open he gets pissed and turns evil. Except he never put the key in the door.
I remember as a kid getting the two dvds and watching it with my brothers. We loved every minute of it and the concept though done poorly was fun and interesting to us. Though we did see the series through a filter by having a lot of the main series on dvd allowing us to enjoy capsule monsters with out it getting in the way of the canon series. We even watched it recently and still found joy out of it. But maybe me and my brothers are anomalies in this sect.
the reason why cardgames work out better, especially in the modern era is that you can just pick up a few packs throw andeck together and ask a buddy, or someone online how to play.
I absolutely love playing capsule monster coliseum. I used to stay up all night playing that game. I even tried to recreate it using paper cut-outs and a large board that had many dividers. Still one of my favorite games to date.
Finishing it, yes. Completing it can get repetitious, though, as there's a lot of need for guides to complete the monster collections, leading to 4-5 playthroughs to hopefully complete the set. This is coming from someone who has completed the CMC game for PS2 as well as Duelists of the Roses (as far as that's realistically possible without hacking/datamining).
@@tomforge614 Yeah I agree completing is pretty boring since you keep your collection and your opponent's monsters don't scale. It has some great fresh replayability though. I bet it'd be fun to speed run any%, I should try that some time 😄
@@agr0nianTV Oh, yeah. It's not terribly difficult. You just need to pace yourself to give yourself a breather from using three Lvl 9 Man Eater Bugs to plow through every opponent while your level everything up.
I might have seen something similar to this game when I was a child. It was a tabletop game where you choose a miniature of a Yu-Gi-Oh character and put it on a marble shooter, then instead of playing regular cards you had to place miniatures of the monsters on a special board. Every time you defeated a monster you shot it with a marble and knocked it down until the enemy had no monsters defending him/her, then you tried to shot a target on the opponent marble shooter to knock the figurine on it down and win. It wasn't very successful and lasted a very short amount of time, probably because the only way to play it was to buy an expensive plastic board and monsters and characters miniatures, plus there were no magic or trap card to help/hinder the battle. But on the other side you could put as many monsters as you wanted rather than only 6.